GBA Re-releases Launch on the Wrong Platform

Relaunching popular Gameboy Advance titles on newer Nintendo platforms was one of the best ideas Nintendo ever had. So many great, high quality titles came out on the Gameboy Advance, and since the latest 3DS and 2DS devices no longer support the GBA cartridge, launching them via virtual console is obviously the alternative to the slot. Obviously. Except Nintendo decided to approach things from a completely different angle.

I actually agree with this mentality. 3DS is well off in the games department, but Wii U needs the extra incentives. I feel that's why N64 and GCN Virtual Console games are more and more crucial to Wii U.

You should also cater to your customers it makes NO sense to ignore the 45 million 3ds users as they most likely owned the previous handhelds and would like to play these games again.

Nintendo has enough fantastic 1st party games to entice people to purchase Wii U. GBA classics I don't think are enough of an incentive to drop $300 down.

This is Nintendo ignoring their customers needs and leaving a lot of money on the table. It is an extremely poor decision. Customers do not come purchase Wii U's in my store for SNES or wii shop games. They say it's nice they can play their favourites again, but, they want the new Mario Kart, Mario 3D world or Smash etc.

should be cross buy, but Nintendo is slow in every regard doing the simple and quick things that'll bring in money. Virtual console would be that and they can't even get it right.

Besides not knowing wth they're doing, another reason why GBA games may not be released on the 3DS is due to vulnerabilities, that they can't fix, that may allow the handheld to be hacked through the GBA games...

I picked up Minish Cap anyway because I have the rest of them on the console, but Metroid Fusion, Golden Sun, etc those should definitely be on the 3DS as well....it's simply stupid.

Just release everything for both and obviously anything that sells is good for them. But when they limit their sales, no one to blame but themselves.

Who's ranting here? I'm just questioning the flawed logic in your comment that somehow Nintendo is afraid of putting games on the 3DS when it ALREADY has 3DS GBA games unrelated to the Virtual Console.

The Wii U was the PERFECT platform to put it on. I love playing these games on the big screen, or the small Wii U controller screen. I find it AWESOME that I can go back and play many of the GBA games that I never got to play ON the big screen.

I have bad eyes and am getting old anyways. Heh. But, I don't like playing small handhelds anymore. So the way Nintendo is doing this is the way to go, besides, you are going to have to buy a new NINTENDO HANDHELD in a few years anyways and will have to go right back to square one again with buying all those games.

I'm fine with the GBA games being on Wii U platforms. That said, I also wish i could purchase them on the 3DS. It is more than possible to do this, Nintendo is just holding it back for some reason. I suppose they are trying to compliment the gamepad, and it's off-tv gameplay feature.

The ambassador program provided some GBA games to early 3DS adopters. I think it's about time Nintendo start releasing handheld classics on their latest handheld. :/

Definitely agree, these were handheld games and they should have been on 3DS also. I cannot imagine wanting to play these on my a Wii U instead of my Wii U or Wii library of games. I would love to be able to play these on my 3DS, especially the Advance Wars 1 & 2, since we still have the cartridges and no GBA to play them on.

Exactly, they need a unified account system ASAP. I don't understand how nintendo didn't have this notion in mind before they even launched the 3DS. I'm sure they saw what the competition was doing yet they continued not to move forward with that idea.

I'm sure there is a reason they have them coming out on the Wii U. Unless they come out and give a statement why not 3ds all we can do is speculate. Also 3DS has a ton of software and this is a treat for owners of the Wii U. The system is now profitable so there making money off of digital sales.